Art
2023 Planner Artwork
Congratulations to the following student artists for their inclusion in next year’s planner cover artwork.
These students are from years 7, 8, 9, & 10. They have produced wonderful artworks from Paintings on Canvas after Degas, Intricate Lino cut work on fabric.
- Front Cover – Elle D (Year 8 2022)
- Back Cover
- Yilin Z (Year 8 2020) Painting on canvas, Clouds
- Ashantha K (Year 7 2020) Indigenous inspired drawing, The Shark
- Madeleine O (Year 10 2022) Printmaking, Lino cut work on fabric, Cat and Butterfly
- Chloe W (Year 7 2022) Indigenous inspired drawing, Dingo
- Lily H (Year 7 2022) Indigenous inspired drawing, Major Mitchell Cockatoo
- Emily Y (Year 9 2022) Painting and felt marker on canvas, a Place of My Own
- Hannah S (Year 8 2022) Printmaking Lino cut, after MC Escher
- Jade C (Year 8 2022) Painting on canvas, Pointillist
- Sahitya I (Year 7 2022 Indigenous inspired drawing, Owl in Flight
- Reomi J, Charlotte C, Zoe P (Year 9 2022) SKATEDECK DESIGNS
- Hanne W (Year 10 2022) Printmaking, Lino cut on fabric. Mountains
Thank you to Mr B Gardiner for the Layout and striking design of the Planner, and the organisation of Ms Maddaford.
Congratulations to each artist for their contribution to the Wonderful Huntingtower Planner 2023.
And Remember
ART is For EVERYONE
Studio Arts Excursion
As part of their Unit 4 studies students learn about different types of Galleries and alternative art spaces.
On August 5th our students Ventured out to explore 5 different exhibitions in 4 very different Galleries and Art spaces throughout Melbourne city.
By experiencing these exhibitions and spaces, they learn about the many roles played to create an exhibition, Curatorial methods, Exhibition design, Marketing and sponsorship, Transport, storage and Conservation of different types of artworks.
We visited NGV Australia, Ron Muick ‘ Mass’ An Installation of Huge Scale Sculls, learning about the challenges of making, transporting and installing such a work.
Federation Square presented (The Eyes) An installation of Multiple oversized fabric eyes throughout the Square, that explores the idea that over the last two decades our attention and ability to focus has dwindled and has been slowly consumed with the increasing barrage of available information and communication technology that craves our gaze and attention. It is a metaphor commenting on the constant surveillance that happens from external factors such as CCTV and the abundance of smartphone cameras. It also speaks to the fact that we ourselves willingly give up our personal information, interests, location and more in this new data rich society.
We also viewed Outside Artist Run Installations along Sturt street, Presentation Cabinets Highlighting Installation works by Kate Gock, Textiles artists.
ACCA, the Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions, the third edition of a multi-year partnership that supports the commissioning of ambitious new projects by contemporary emerging to mid-career artists. The students met with the education staff to learn about Art Industry in Context, through a variety of commissioned art works, and were challenged with alternative installations and dynamic works exploring painting.
After a quick lunch we had the Joy of Viewing, The Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2022 Exhibition; The Picasso Century at the NGV International.
This exhibition is in two parts and looks at Picasso’s career through his artistic and intellectual engagement with his peers, the exhibition provides a unique insight into the artistic legacy of one of the 20th century’s most influential and celebrated artists, as well as the community of artists from which he emerged. See works by many of the artists with whom he intersected throughout his career, including Dorothea Tanning, Françoise Gilot, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Dora Maar, Henri Matisse, and more.
Curated by noted scholar of 20th century art Didier Ottinger, Deputy Director of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Picasso Century examines the diverse influences, encounters and collaborative relationships that steered Picasso through many distinct artistic periods, such as his Blue Period, Cubism and Surrealism, and draws lines between Picasso’s famous creations and the world around him.
Some of our wonderful students were so involved with this experience that they had to contact their parents to ask for permission to stay longer than we had planned, finally leaving as the Gallery closed at 5.00
A wonderful day of learning.
Mrs Marion Power
Head Of Art